Donde Se Habla [LP]

La Polla Records - Donde Se Habla [LP]

This album, recorded in 1988 at Elkar Studios in Lasarte, is a happy accident, like much of La Polla Records' early output, by Jean Phocas (who also worked with other bands of the genre such as Cicatriz) and César Ibarretxe. It was lovingly designed, with a medieval atmosphere for the cover (by Txefo, Joseba Olalde and Txarly) featuring a huge scroll containing five tarot cards, a back cover in the same style with heraldic figures, and a meticulous presentation of the lyrics with separate spellings for each song, on a double sheet with photos of piglets suckling from their mother on one side and various images on the other. With animals as the common thread for the songs, it represents the confirmation that the concept album had arrived on the national punk scene. Perhaps a work of maturity, the band's traditional objectives disappear from the lyrics, and although there is still room for specific protests and chronicles of nights of alcohol and violence (such as those of La Rata), the emphasis is on reveling in the description of all kinds of personal, psychotic and hallucinatory hells. Evaristo confessed to being influenced by Umberto Eco's book The Name of the Rose (1980) in the making of this work. Far from indicating any departure from the foundations laid in previous works, (more...)

A1. Los monos
A2. Canarios y jilgueros (1:32)
A3. Ocho mariposas (1:55)
A4. Animal sin nombre (2:17)
A5. Conejas y gallinas (2:32)
A6. Rata parte 1 (0:56)
A7. Rata parte 2 (2:47)
A8. El perro salvaje (2:08)
B1. El avestruz (2:18)
B2. Confusión (1:20)
B3. El cerdo (1:34)
B4. Escorpión (1:44)
B5. El pingüino (1:52)
B6. Ciervos, corzos y gacelas (2:00)
B8. Las hormigas (1:40)
B9. Todos los animales privando juntos en el bar (2:45)